So if you want to look at it that way it is a 25 warhead reduction, that’s a little bit tendentious to put it that way, but the numbers really aren’t that impresses as they’re commonly said to be. I think the whole result is quite disappointing.

When the Cold War ended, the political reference, the political basis or foundation for these arsenals dissolved and since then, they have sort of drifted into a kind of policy-free zone, just to kind of a stupid momentum.

nine countries, including the U.S. and Russia, which of 95% of the arsenals, are really basically saying they can have their weapons forever but everyone should do without them. And sort of diplomatically, morally, politically—any way want to look at it, that is an unworkable position.

the Russian leadership has been very upset by the United States in the last decade or two. One was N.A.T.O. enlargement and the other was the war in Serbia, Yugoslavia, and an array of other issues. And it very much includes this missile defense that the United States is planning to establish in Poland and the Czech Republic,